CLASS I. MAMMALIA: ORDEE 10. SOLIDUNGULA. 
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SALADIN. 
iipon these occasions, the horses rarely, if ever, trample upon the bodies of the w.ounded or the 
dead with which the field is scattered. If a trumpet sound, too, the riderless horse, if not frantic 
with the agony of wounds, will follow upon the sound, but will turn away again if he finds that 
the uniform of the party is not like that of his own regiment. If his rider falls when the horse 
is at considerable speed, the horse instantly stops, so that an exchange is frequently soon made of 
a rider who has lost his horse and a horse that has lost his rider. Veteran horses are rarely, if 
ever, panic-struck, and though they are, of course, liable to be taken prisoners, they never desert 
to the enemy, 
"The most remarkable fact of the whole matter, however, is the evident fondness which horses 
that have been accustomed to it have for the army ; and this appears both in their fondness for 
particular regiments and in that for all military array, and even military weapons. It is told that, 
in one of their insurrections in the early part of this century, the Tyrolese captured fifteen horses 
belonging to the troops sent against them, and mounted them with fifteen of their own men, in« 
order to go out to a fresh rencounter with the same troops ; but no sooner did these horses hear 
the well-known sound of their own trumpet, and recognize the uniform of their own squadron,, 
than they dashed onward at fall speed, and in spite of all the efforts of their riders, bore them 
into the ranks, and delivered them up as prisoners to the squadron ! If an old military horse, 
even when reduced almost to skin and bone, hears the roll of a drum or the twang of a 
trumpet, the freshness of his youth appears to come upon him, and if he at the same time gets 
a sight of men clad in uniform and drawn up in line, it is no easy matter to prevent him from 
joining them. 
"Nor does it signify what kind of military they are, as is shown by the following case. Toward 
the close of the last century, about the time when volunteers were first embodied in the difi"erent 
towns of England, an extensive line of turnpike road was in progress of construction in a part of 
the north. The Clerk to the Trustees upon this line used to send one of his assistants to ride 
along occasionally in order to see that the contractors, who were at work m> a great many places,, 
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